Navi Pillay: Speaking Truth to Power – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights shares her Concerns Posted on September 27, 2023 By Admin “I think Christianity is under threat [in the Middle East] … I am very alarmed about what is happening to them.” Referemce on Sri Lanka, specifically threat on the Catholic Priests who defend Human Rights. Headlines and sharp rhetoric about war crimes and crimes against humanity seem so common that they raise this question: Are we as a global society in fact making progress in protecting human rights because of higher awareness, or are we actually heading in the wrong direction? Perhaps no one is better equipped to answer this question than Navi Pillay, the highest official in the United Nations responsible for monitoring and investigating human rights abuses around the world. Describing herself as the “moral voice” that the world created to speak “truth to power”, she is approaching the end of her term. Uncategorized
Human Rights Day 2010 Posted on October 2, 2023October 2, 2023 Human Rights Day 2010: Time to Establish International War Crime inquiry in Sri Lanka The promotion and protection of human rights has been a major challenge for the United Nations since 1945, when the Organization’s founding nations resolved that the horrors of The Second World War should never be allowed to… Read More
Will UN Report bring Justice for Sri Lanka War Victims? Posted on September 27, 2023September 27, 2023 Will UN Report bring Justice for Sri Lanka War Victims? By Amantha Perera UNNICHCHI, Sri Lanka, 2 September 2015 (IRIN) – Thavarasa Utharai says she isn’t exactly sure where Geneva is, but she is anxiously awaiting a report soon to be made public in the Swiss city that is expected… Read More
OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL) Posted on September 27, 2023September 27, 2023 Terms of Reference Mandate and reporting obligations In its resolution A/HRC/25/1 adopted in March 2014 on “Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka”, the United Nations Human Rights Council requested the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to “undertake a comprehensive investigation into alleged serious violations and abuses of human… Read More